Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Robert E. Bly '50 has been awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for 1949-50 for his poem "The Indian Trail," it was announced yesterday. He will receive $185 and a silver medal...
Shadow That Bear. Scouting ahead in the mountains above Taos, N. Mex., Ben Lilly struck a fresh trail. He hurried back to camp with the good news but McFadden had been called East on business...
Like Ahab tracking Moby Dick, tireless Ben spent the summer and fall following his grizzly over New Mexico and Colorado. Faithfully he sent back his dispatches to the hunting party: "We will get him sooner or later-just as it suits you." Ben kept on the trail till the grizzly hibernated, though once he complained, "My gun froze on the route. I didn't have a mouthful of meat for ten days...
Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
...Lilly's long life as a hunter he probably killed close to 1,000 bears and mountain lions. He might have killed more but for one Sabbatarian self-limitation: he would abandon even the freshest trail on Saturday evening and refuse to pick it up again until Monday morning. Says Author Dobie: Ben Lilly "was in the tradition of the Mountain Men and was the very last man in that tradition. There can never be another...